Bread

Oh my what a whirl wind couple weeks! New job (more about that later…so excited!), new camera, new Iphone and new computer on it’s way…I am in technical pergatory! Thank heaven for bread…glorious bread with melted butter and jam. (sorry no pictures of that…it went too fast, my photo would have been a hand to mouth…

My Mom and Dad were awesome cooks when I was growing up…we even had a small restaurant for a few years. My Dad liked to cook things that took a lot of time… recipes that almost had an element of science to it. Bread fit the bill perfectly. My Dad, being the kinda guy that…

I posted this recipe several months ago and I knew I liked the recipe, but something about it was so average. I wasn’t jumping on the bed yelling “I love me some buns!” and really, that’s what you should be doing when you find good bread. You guys do that don’t you? I mean jump on the…

Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about! This bread goes with everything…I mean everything…you could probably have it with a bowl of captain crunch in the morning and all it would do is make your cereal taste better! Not…I repeat, not a diet bread…one cup of butter my friends…yep, one cup of butter…be still my clogging arteries. Ingredients…

When the going gets tough, the tough make muffins! It’s so therapeutic. When Rachel was little and had a bad day, we would make muffins after school, talk and laugh…it was, and is, so calming. I still make muffins for friends, neighbors and those that I love. I have tried so many different muffin recipes but this…

I used to do a lot of event planning….and one of the places I looked forward to every year was the Mountain Springs Lodge in Leavenworth Washington…it wasn’t just because it is so beautiful, although it is…it was the scalloped potatoes. Little puffs of heaven. I told my friend Laurie, when my time comes, I…